Franklyn Seales’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, clear, gritty

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Franklyn Seales has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.

The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971
Drama

The Yakuza
1974
Crime · Drama

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
Crime · Drama

F.I.S.T.
1978
Drama · Action

The American Friend
1977
Drama · Thriller

The Falcon and the Snowman
1985
Thriller · Drama

The Valachi Papers
1972
Crime · Drama

Straight Time
1978
Crime · Drama

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
Dir. Harold Becker · With John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales